I am in the Soviet State of PA. Been a temp at a major company for 3.5 years with no sign of getting hired. No temps get hired, ever. We make up about 40% of the company's workforce. No sick days. No vacation. No 401k. No future. There are 2 other biotech companies in my area, and they only hire temps too. There are no permanent jobs.
Guys that build block walls, driver commercial vehicles, trim trees, pave roads, repair electric and plumbing, they have work, no? Go waste some time there. Same benefits package and you will learn skills that can carry you somewhere other than pointless office work.
I am a woman and weak as hell. I am a biochemist, so it's not office work. Given the chance, I would rather be a housewife. Trying to sock away some money so I can quit this BS. I was way happier as a stay at home mom.
I would say that outsourcing and importing tons of H1Bs (supply>>demand) drove wages down more than anything. People come from China newly married and go to grad school here, get their buddies to hire them at big pharma and bring the rest of their family to the US. Pharma is happy because they don't have to make any long term commitments/no severance or benefits and can obviously pay much less than a FTE. The FTE positions can go to PhDs in management. I was also fooled into thinking this would be a stable life, and have been spending the first half of my 40s working in an unrelated temp job without any future as well.
I am in the Soviet State of PA. Been a temp at a major company for 3.5 years with no sign of getting hired. No temps get hired, ever. We make up about 40% of the company's workforce. No sick days. No vacation. No 401k. No future. There are 2 other biotech companies in my area, and they only hire temps too. There are no permanent jobs.
Guys that build block walls, driver commercial vehicles, trim trees, pave roads, repair electric and plumbing, they have work, no? Go waste some time there. Same benefits package and you will learn skills that can carry you somewhere other than pointless office work.
I am a woman and weak as hell. I am a biochemist, so it's not office work. Given the chance, I would rather be a housewife. Trying to sock away some money so I can quit this BS. I was way happier as a stay at home mom.
I would say that outsourcing and importing tons of H1Bs (supply>>demand) drove wages down more than anything. People come from China newly married and go to grad school here, get their buddies to hire them at big pharma and bring the rest of their family to the US. Pharma is happy because they don't have to make any long term commitments/no severance or benefits and can obviously pay much less than a FTE. The FTE positions can go to PhDs in management. I was also fooled into thinking this would be a stable life, and have been spending the first half of my 40s working in an unrelated temp job without any future as well.